The following story includes an offensive depiction of a character named Jupiter. Poe’s characterization of the formerly enslaved man reflects racist minstrel stereotypes. The Gold-Bug...
Epimanes Chacun a ses vertus. Crebillon’s Xerxes Antiochus Epiphanes is very generally looked upon as the Gog of the prophet Ezekiel. This honour is however more properly attributable to...
The Duke De L’Omelette And stepped at once into a cooler clime. Keats fell by a criticism. Who was it died of ‘The Andromache?’ Ignoble souls! De L’Omelette perished of an...
Raising the Wind; or, Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences Hey, diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle. Since the world began there have been two Jeremys. The...
The Devil in The Belfry. An Extravaganza. What o’clock is it? — Old Saying Every body knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is — or...
A Descent into the Maelström The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness...
A Decided Loss – A Tale a la Blackwood O breathe not, &c. — Moore’s Melodies. The most notorious ill-fortune must, in the end, yield to the untiring courage of philosophy...
The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion EIROS. Why do you call me Eiros? CHARMION. So henceforward will you always be called. You must forget, too, my earthly name, and...
The Colloquy Of Monos And Una UNA. “Born again?” MONOS. Yes, fairest and best beloved Una, “born again.” These were the words upon whose mystical meaning I had so long pondered...
